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LexisNexis has also provided fixes for the MS Word Plu-in issue in TimeMatters Version 7 and Total Practice Advantage Version 7.
We've all seen the pictures of the person sitting at the desk against a backdrop of a mountain of papers (or something similar) and many think, "Yeah, right." To prove that truth is stranger than fiction, checkout fellow Practice Management Advisor (PMA) for South Carolina Courtney Kennady's post When You Go to Heaven... and take a look at the pictures: these are from an actual attorney's office where the person made no provision for succession planning and left this mess behind.
The folks at Twitter have created Twitter 101 A Special Guide to help answer this question. The guide contains tips and tricks as well as Best Practices, Case Studies and outside Resources. If you're wondering if you should be using Twitter in your practice, I'd recommend taking a look a this guide before you get started. Hat tip to the July ABA Site-tation update from the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center for this one.
Slashdot posted Firefox Plugin Liberates Paywalled Court Records today which is a link to Timothy B. Lee's Bottom-up blog. It seems that Mr. Lee and fellow grad students have a created RECAP, a Firefox plugin that allows you to take Pacer court records that you've purchased and upload them to a public internet archive. While the Federal Courts make records available, they do so through the PACER online system which requires an account as well as charging a per document fee.
If you haven't subscribed to the gruntled employees blog by Jay Shepherd (Shepherd Law Group), you should do so immediately. I always enjoy reading Jay's blog as he consistently provides insights and information on management and law firm operations often times relating real world nonlegal experiences everyday needs of law offices and lawyers.One of his recent blog posts "We don't treat our employees like children" resonated with me as we've all experienced something similar to the two different dining experiences he had.
Today's issue of YourABA e-news includes a link to Ethics checklists for solo and small firm practitioners. This is really a compilation of prior ABA articles, free CLE audio and sample forms on ethical issues facing lawyers. These are well worth reading and adding a bookmark in your browser so you can refer back to these as needed.
Thanks to my good friend Bryan Sims of The Connected Lawyer blog for pointing out that Rick Borstein from Adobe (and the author of Acrobat for Lawyers blog) will be conducting a series of 3 hour Acrobat Forums for Legal Professionals around the country in September and October 2009, starting with Chicago on September 15, 2009. If you've never been to one of Rick's Acrobat sessions, you need to try and go as he is terrific at explaining how lawyers can use Acrobat in their practices.
Scammers and con artists continue to become more sophisticated in their methods and have been preying on unsuspecting lawyers and law firms for over a year now. The time just before holidays is fast becoming a preferred period for these nefarious villains to try and hit law firms with their tricks. Our friends at LawPRO Insurance in Toronto, Canada have provided a timely and concise reminder of what this fact and some of the red flags that may indicate you're being scammed in their Fraud reminder: Fraudsters strike before holiday weekends posting.
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